PRESS RELEASE
Jun Kaneko: Ceramics
Dec 6, 2007 – Feb 1, 2008
Boca Raton, FL – Elaine Baker Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of ceramic sculpture by artist Jun Kaneko, opening on December 6 2007 and continuing until February 1, 2008.
Jun Kaneko was born in 1942 in Nagoya, Japan and came to the United States in the 1960’s. Particularly drawn to sculptural ceramics, Kaneko studied at the Chouinard Institute of Art during a pivotal time when ceramics as functional craft was expanding to embrace the highest levels of contemporary artistic expression. After studying with Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner, and Ken Price in California, Kaneko emerged during the time now identified as the contemporary movement or the “America Clay Revolution.”
Jun Kaneko’s work is defined by its overwhelming scale and exquisite form, implying a spatial relationship between the object and viewer. Evidence of Kaneko’s early years as a painter exist in the richly glazed surfaces and rhythmic pulse of his marks and patterns. Their sheer size combined with the artists hunger to push the physical limitations of his material, generate an undeniable presence in the work.
Elaine Baker Gallery is located in the Gallery Center at 608 Banyan Trail in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information please contact Cristin Lane at 561.241.3050 or visit www.elainebakergallery.com